“Cake is one of our few undiscriminated social events. If you go visit a friend at work, and someone they work with is having a birthday, there might be cake and if there is, you, a stranger, are welcome to participate in the cake ritual. Even with all the things that separate us, cake will always bring us together, if for a moment, and with false camaraderie. Cake is never a solo experience. Cake is a shared memory.”